David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•this is a piece about Urbit by someone who is totally not a nazi for a totally not nazi mag and it's hilariousEnglish
4·2 days agoPart of the late 2010s blockchain-academic-industrial complex
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•this is a piece about Urbit by someone who is totally not a nazi for a totally not nazi mag and it's hilariousEnglish
5·2 days agohttps://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/user-error-angel-investors-on-holy-land-march-2023
here’s the author’s previous ramble mentioning urbit
reads like she was angling for Dimes Square funding and didn’t get it
EDIT: and her earlier one much more about Urbit https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/user-error-a-more-beautiful-computer
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
9·3 days agolook some people just don’t like women having hobbies
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
7·3 days agoto
fucksell LSD to children
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
8·3 days agoi am pretty sure i am shredding the Resonant Computing Manifesto for Monday
and of course Anil Dash signed it
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Google’s Antigravity AI vibe coder wipes your hard diskEnglish
5·6 days ago“how foolish of you to believe the 24/7 barrage of propaganda about AI agents”
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•A few years ago I created a project called Olif a way to render Urbit ID’s as a scent. I began selling them as wearable fragrances in my retail storeEnglish
7·6 days agowhile the antifa FP crowd long jettisoned all Yarvin’s works, it occurs to me that the fa FP crowd don’t seem to talk about urbit or Yarvin any more either
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t workEnglish
2·7 days agoimagine a $100b GPU data centre with the disposability of a cubesat
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Lawyers find more work! Cleaning up after AI botsEnglish
7·7 days agoDistrust but verify
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Epic CEO wants Steam to remove AI game disclosuresEnglish
14·10 days agoone-hour-old troll accounts are probably not suitable content for this forum
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
5·11 days agoStephenson knows how computers work.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
6·11 days agoand it made it to being an actual content guideline, not just an essay!
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Nature’s latest AI-generated paper — with medical frymblal and Factor FexcectornEnglish
6·11 days agoI would guess the latter.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Nature’s latest AI-generated paper — with medical frymblal and Factor FexcectornEnglish
4·11 days agoI speak many phrase from your Englander language!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
8·14 days agoRust is the tr*ns language with programmer socks, you see
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’English
3·14 days agoand they’re all using chatbots in their methodology and for the mandatory reviews
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•White House: the US will fabricate science with chatbotsEnglish
8·14 days agoI’m guessing ivermectin and miasma theory
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•White House: the US will fabricate science with chatbotsEnglish
5·14 days ago“10,000 to 100,000 times faster.”
You know they meant they’d ask a chatbot

















yes, it’s Urbit failing to reach its target